GM Fabiano Caruana wrested the lead from GM Levon Aronian in the last round of day two in the 2025 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz. He won their direct encounter to finish the day with 10 points. Tied in second-third are Aronian and GM Wesley So, wh...
GM Levon Aronian leads the 2025 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz with a perfect 6/6 score after the first three rounds of rapid chess. GM Fabiano Caruana had a strong start as well with 5/6—two wins and a draw. World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju b...
Velammal MHS School, from India, won the FIDE World Schools Team Championship 2025 with a perfect 8/8 score. The National School of Physics and Mathematics from Kazakhstan took silver with 6/8, while the Harker School from the U.S. took bronze wit...
Two former WSCC champions advanced comfortably into the Quarterfinals of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship. Women's World Champion (and reigning WSCC Champion) GM Ju Wenjun beat FM Anastasia Avramidou 9.5-4.5, while GM Kateryna Lagno elimi...
World number-one GM Hou Yifan defeated GM Karina Ambartsumova 11-3 in the opening match of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship, followed immediately by IM Alice Lee beating GM Vaishali Rameshbabu 8-6 on the same day. While the first match wa...
The focus of this month's article will be on the women's rating list, as the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup brought many changes. GM Divya Deshmukh was the player of the month as she was the first IM to ever win the event and, through it, earn the gr...
GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi (Group A), Nihal Sarin (Group B), Hikaru Nakamura (Group C), and Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Group D) won their respective Losers Brackets to complete the field of eight players in the 2025 Esports World Cup Quarterfinals. They j...
GMs Levon Aronian (Group A), Arjun Erigaisi (Group B), Alireza Firouzja (Group C), and Magnus Carlsen (Group D) all won two matches to reach the Quarterfinals of the 2025 Esports World Cup. On their last lives in the Losers Brack...
GM Divya Deshmukh defeated GM Koneru Humpy 1.5-0.5 in tiebreaks to win the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. She earns not only $50,000, with $35,000 going to the runner-up, but she is also awarded the grandmaster title. Nineteen years old, she is the ...
GM Tan Zhongyi won with the black pieces against GM Lei Tingjie to finish in third place at the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. She qualifies for the 2026 FIDE Women's Candidates and earns a $25,000 prize. The match for first place, between IM Divya ...
Both games were drawn in game one of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup Finals, but neither of them was dull. IM Divya Deshmukh gained a massive advantage as early as move 10 and even sacrificed a piece, but GM Koneru Humpy got away. In the match for...
GM Koneru Humpy was on the brink of elimination in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup Semifinals after losing the third tiebreak game. But she won on demand in game four and then won the two blitz games—pulling off the hat trick—to advanc...
IM Divya Deshmukh eliminated GM Tan Zhongyi from the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup, extending her Cinderella story into the Final with a third consecutive match victory over a grandmaster. She also earns her first grandmaster norm and a spot in the ...
Four cities in two continents played over-the-board chess against one another on International Chess Day (July 20). The event, Portals x Chess.com, was a celebration of chess that connected Dublin, Ireland; Lublin, Poland; Philadelphia, U.S.A.; an...
With no decisive results after game one of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup Semifinals, tensions rise as we enter the second and potentially last game of each match. IM Divya Deshmukh held a quick draw with Black against GM Tan Zhongyi, while GM Ko...
Nineteen-year-old Dutch IM Eline Roebers set a new record in June, becoming the highest-rated woman in the history of Chess.com. Her new rating of 2932 beat GM Kateryna Lagno's previous record of 2928. ELINE IS UNSTOPPABLE! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/g...
Basketball and chess pros joined forces in the latest sports-and-chess crossover event, the Chesstival, which took place the weekend before the Las Vegas Freestyle Grand Slam, which begins on Wednesday. Grant Williams, of the Charlotte Hornets, wo...
Twelve players made it through the tiebreaks of round two in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. They were GM Mariya Muzychuk, IM Meruert Kamalidenova, GM Kateryna Lagno, GM Anna Muzychuk, GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, WIM Umida Omonova, IM Lu Miaoyi, IM V...
12 matches go to tiebreaks in round two of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup. In a fighting second game of classical chess, we saw six win on demand. Notably, 2023 World Cup winner GM Aleksandra Goryachkina staved off elimination for at least anothe...
If you were hoping for upsets, blunders, and dramatic twists of fate, game one of round two in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup did not disappoint. On the one hand, we saw several pre-tournament favorites win, including GMs Lei Tingjie, Nana D...
The first set of players have been eliminated from the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup, and 11 players advanced through tiebreaks into an even more challenging round two. The advancing players are WIM Priyanka K, WIM Anahita Zahedifar, IM Klaudia Kulo...
After game two of the first round in the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup, 52 players are confirmed for round two. Those who won their matches will enjoy a rest day on Tuesday, while we will see 11 pairs of players fighting for their spots in round two...
GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, on the way to winning the 2025 UzChess Cup, has gained 12 points to rise to world number-four and Indian number-one. At Norway Chess 2025 earlier in the month, GM Fabiano Caruana gained seven points to jump back to wo...
GM Alireza Firouzja defended his title as the bullet chess champion by defeating GM Oleksandr Bortnyk 19.5-5.5 in the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship Grand Final. It was a dominant showing, as the French number-one won every match by a margin of 10...
Defending Champion GM Alireza Firouzja continues to dominate the 2025 Bullet Chess Championship. He's won every match by 10 points or more, and his latest victim was GM Daniel Naroditsky, whom he defeated 22.5-10.5. There are three players in the ...
